Tradify

Clean, fast job management for very small trade businesses

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Price band $ — under ~$100/mo
Rough cost Lite $47, Pro $51, Plus $61 per user per month
Company size Solo to ~10 staff
Category Job management

What Tradify is

Tradify does the essentials — enquiries, quotes, scheduling, timesheets, invoices — with less clutter than almost anything else in the category, and it is priced simply per user. It suits a one-to-ten person trade business that wants to stop losing quotes and start invoicing the same week, and it is especially popular with electricians and plumbers.

Best for

One to ten person trade businesses that want speed and simplicity over features

Watch out

Deliberately light: minimal marketing automation, basic reporting, and no serious price book or project tooling.

What it does well

  • Very quick to learn and to actually use daily
  • Good quote-to-invoice flow
  • Simple per-user pricing with no tier games
  • Solid Xero and QuickBooks sync

Integrates with

Xero · QuickBooks Online · MYOB · Stripe

Integration lists change often and "integrates" can mean anything from a real two-way sync to a one-way push through Zapier. Ask the vendor which fields move, in which direction, and how often.

Before you commit

  • Run one real job end to end during the trial — quote, schedule, invoice, payment. Demos hide friction; a real job does not.
  • Check the mobile app on your own phone, outdoors, on cell data. That is where your crew will actually use it.
  • Confirm the accounting sync is two-way and that it maps to the way your bookkeeper already works.
  • Ask what happens to your data if you leave. Export formats matter more than you think on day 400.
  • Price it at the headcount you expect in 18 months, not today — per-user pricing is where budgets break.

How to judge it in a trial

Run one real job through it end to end — not the demo data. Quote it, schedule it, do it, invoice it, take the payment. Then ask the only question that matters on day 400: did the people who have to use this every day find it faster than what they do now? Friction you notice in week one compounds forever, and tool-hopping costs more than any feature gap.

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